IMPACT OF THE 6TH BIANNUAL MEETING OF ANSP AND CINEGRID BRASIL 2014 IN THE RESEARCH MEDIA

The joint event between BMA6 (ANSP 6th Meeting) and CineGrid Brazil 2014, which occurred in August 2014, had a positive impact in the science media.

In special reports, in the first half of September 2014, FAPESP’s News Agency highlighted the events of the 6th Biannual Meeting of ANSP (BMA6) and CineGrid Brasil 2014, which occurred together in the USP School of Medicine, in São Paulo, in the week of 25 to 29 August, 2014.
In an article dated 5 September, 2014, “The speed of the academic internet’s international connection will be doubled”, Elton Alisson outlined the 25-year history of ANSP’s network operation, marked in 2014.
In an interview, available on video, Prof. Fernandez Lopez, of the USP School of Medicine, principal researcher on the Fapesp ANSP project, and coordinator of BMA6 (ANSP 6th Biannual Meeting), explains why the current speed of data transmission has become inadequate for communication between the São Paulo academic networks and the international academic community, and he announces that, from 2015, the first academic 100 gigabits internet connection between the Southern and Northern hemispheres will be up and running. This connection, currently in beta testing, will establish a much faster communication between the current networks in the ANSP Ecosystem and research networks in the United States and other countries, via Miami.